If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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